Word Finder - spun

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To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.

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I spun myself around a few times.

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To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together.

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They spin the cotton into thread.

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To present, describe, or interpret, or to introduce a bias or slant, so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance.

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(of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways when it bounces on the pitch.

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(of a ball) To move sideways when bouncing.

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To form into thin strips or ribbons, as with sugar

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To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, etc.) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.

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To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe.

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To move swiftly.

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to spin along the road in a carriage, on a bicycle, etc.

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To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet.

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Blood spins from a vein.

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To wait in a loop until some condition becomes true.

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To play (vinyl records, etc.) as a disc jockey.

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To use an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class.

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An abnormal condition in journal bearings where the bearing seizes to the shaft that is rotating and rotates inside the journal, destroying both the shaft and the journal.

He grabbed the door handle as she spun around a curve.

At least, nothing she could make out as she spun faster and faster.

She spun around and headed for her car, tears welling up in her eyes.

The car spun around at the bottom of the hill, spraying gravel in a wild circle.

Instead of waiting for the Other to attack again, Darian spun and plunged his knife into the creature's belly.

He spun on one heal and left the hotel.

She spun, the action rocking her precarious balance, only to come face-to-face with the American nerd.

He spun on his heel and left.

Once two reels of the same single ply yarn are produced these can then be spun into a double ply yarn are produced these can then be spun into a double ply yarn.

But the cotton could not be spun quickly enough in the domestic system by hand-spinners using spinning wheels.

And poised on its top most bough, a crystal crescent moon glistened like spun glass.

She spun down like an ash key into the mire below where the black ooze slowly sucked her down into its murky depths.

We can also offer wooden Victorian style hand carts from which are sold freshly spun candy floss and just cooked sweet caramel popcorn.

Several spinsters (women who spun wool) would be needed to keep the weaving loom busy.

Sarah spun round shocked to face those familiar handsome serious blue eyes and movie star good looks.

He spun round - just managed to parry a vicious upward thrust aimed at his heart.

Then they had to be spun into a thread, like modern knitting wool.

Chapter 3 examines the prices of and market for spun yarn whilst Chapter 4 examines acetate filament yarn.

Here we must distinguish between the reeled silk and the spun or waste silk manufactures.

The permanent committee of the Paris International Congress of 1900, which was held for the purpose of unification of the numerotage of counts, unanimously decided - (a) With reference to cotton, silk and other textiles spun from fibres, that they should be based on a fixed weight and variable length, the unit being one metre to one gramme.

The English cotton yarn and spun silk counts are reckoned upon the number of hanks of 840 yds.

The remarkable development of the comparatively new trade in spun silk goes far to compensate for the loss of the older trade of net silk, and has enabled the exports of silk manufactures from Great Britain to be at least maintained and to show some signs of expansion.

Before the introduction of machinery applicable to the spinning of silk waste, the refuse from cocoon reeling, and also from silk winding, which is now used in producing spun silk fabrics, hosiery, &c., was nearly all destroyed as being useless, with the exception of that which could be hand-combed and spun by means of the distaff and spinning wheel, a method which is still practised by some of the peasantry in India and other Eastern countries.

It is the spinner's business to straighten out these fibres, with the aid of machinery, and then to so join them that they become a thread, which is known as spun silk.

There are two distinct kinds of spun silk - one called "schappe " and the other " spun silk " or " discharged spun silk."

The silk was then boiled and afterwards beaten, scutched, carded, drawn, spun, folded, &c., in exactly the same way as fine cotton.

If a 2-fold or 3-fold yarn is needed, then two or more ends of the spun thread are wound together and afterwards conveyed to the twisting frame for the purpose of putting the needed twist in the yarn necessary for weaving or other requirements.

Folded Yarns are hairy after being spun and folded, and in addition sometimes contain nibs and rough places.

As will have been gathered, spun silk is pure silk just as much as that used by the throwster.

The number of mills has decreased, but machinery now runs so much more quickly than formerly that more yarn is being spun on fewer spindles.

The article known as tussur spun is prepared in exactly the same manner as other spun silks, but its chief use is to make an imitation of sealskin known commercially as silk seal.

Since the Rev. William Ellis and a party of American missionaries first made the volcano known to the civilized ' Among the minqr phenomena of Hawaiian volcanoes are the delicate glassy fibres called Pele's hair by the Hawaiians, which are spun by the wind from the rising and falling drops of liquid lava, and blown over the edge or into the crevices of the crater.

The two great centres of production are Oldham, in which American cotton is chiefly, though not exclusively, spun, and Bolton, which spins the finer counts from Egyptian or Sea Island cotton.

The great bulk of the yarn spun in Great Britain ranges between comparatively narrow limits of count, and such staples as 32' to 36 s twist and 36' to 46' weft in American, 50 9 to 60 s twist and 42' to 62' weft in Egyptian, make up a large part of the total.

The tendency to spin finer counts has been to some extent counteracted by the development of the flannelette trade, for which heavy wefts are used, and there has been again a tendency lately to use "condensor" or waste wefts, which has worked to the disadvantage of the spinners of the regular coarse counts spun at Royton and elsewhere.

It is a matter of experience that cotton yarns which when spun contain only a small percentage of moisture will absorb up to about 8% when they are exposed to what may be rather vaguely described as natural conditions.

Of course by far the larger part of the yarn spun in Lancashire is woven in Lancashire, but of the cotton cloth woven in Lancashire it is roughly estimated that about 20% is used in Great Britain.

Linen, flax, jute and wool are also spun and woven.

Phormium is a cream-coloured fibre with a fine silky gloss, capable of being spun and woven into many of the heavier textures for which flax is used, either alone or in combination with flax.

Silkworms are bred, and some silk is spun; and the export of honey and wax is not inconsiderable.

Further to encourage the trade it was enacted in 1686 that the bodies of all persons, excepting poor tenants and cotters, should be buried in plain linen only, spun and made within the kingdom.

The thread spun by the jenny could not, however, be used except as weft, being destitute of the firmness or hardness required in the longitudinal threads or warp. Arkwright supplied this deficiency by the invention of the spinning-frame, which spins a vast number of threads of any degree of fineness and hardness.

This is a type of motion commonly observed in a top spun in the ordinary way, although the successive undulations of the trochoid may be too small to be easily observed.

Yet - thanks to its organization, its press, and the elaborate network of alliances spun by Windhorst - the Ultramontane Centre still remains a powerful force in German politics.

Apparently alpaca yarn was spun in England for the first time about the year 1808.

All the better class yarns are spun from these two kinds.

The fibre began to receive attention in Great Britain towards the close of the 18th century, and early in the 19th century it was spun into yarn and woven into cloth in the town of Abingdon.

It is prepared by boiling the needles in a solution of soda to remove the resin, which process loosens the fibre and renders its separation easy; it has some resemblance to coarse wool, and is spun and woven into blankets and garments that are said to be warm and durable; it is also used for stuffing cushions; an essential oil, obtained by a previous distillation of the leaves, has medicinal virtues attributed to it by some German practitioners.

Flax was cultivated at a very early period in Ireland and was both spun into thread and manufactured into cloth.

Robert Hooke shaped the minutest of the lenses with which he made many of the discoveries recorded in his Micrographia from small glass globules made by fusing the ends of threads of spun glass; and the same method was employed by the Italian Father Di Torre.